Burn It Down! with Nate K.:
Playlist
from January 4, 2015

Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J. Geils. Plus, live bands.

Sun. 1/4/15 6:52am
Simon P:
@Nate - New Years engagements to fulfill but will oblige at future date!

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Sun. 1/4/15 7:27am
Stanley:
Poor ol' Jesus Freaks. Serious cases of acid casualties, looked after well-meaning Christian sky-pilots. Ran a great kitchen at Glastonbury and danced a lot. There was also this guy called Jesus who was a permanent fixture at the festivals and concerts in London. In those days there was little support for the burn-outs, except the God squad and they made a lot of conversions from these guys.

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Sun. 1/4/15 7:27am
Sem Chumbo:
Went to a concert one time with a friend who'd been speeding for about a year and a half, he suffered a sudden attack of methamphetamine psychosis during the proceedings. He thought he was Jesus Christ, started proclaiming the Good News to everyone, VERY LOUDLY so I spent the night with a really freaked out Jesus freak*l*

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Sun. 1/4/15 7:49am
Sem Chumbo:
@Stanley @ 7:30: he did not, he became an evangelical and exhibited almost none of his pre-freak-out personality. His new persona was very amiable, he was just not the guy I grew up with.

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Sun. 1/4/15 7:59am
Sem Chumbo:
Anybody offering insights into why the occult gets a grip on us for at least part of our intellectual development? Listening to FMU I hear so many groups mining the shit out of the hell/Hail Lucifer/depths of depravity/doom/apocalyptic/There-is-nobody-as-far- gone-in-sin-as-me vein...a little goes a long way. Zeitgeist, giving the music buying public what it wants, or what?

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Sun. 1/4/15 8:01am
Sem Chumbo:
@Stanley: yup, that seems about right. Grasping for solidity, any solidity, in the midst of the natural order of the world, which our left brains percieve as chaos. One man's opinion.

Sun. 1/4/15 8:05am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Rawk comes from Blues comes from Vodoun (West African spirituality). Rawk is Gospel w/ dirty lyrics. It's foundational to it. Think about how central to our lives this Music is - & how much it makes Society nervous, & is Outside it. There's a reason all this is so. 1st thing White Man does is get rid of the African's & Indian's drums.

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Sun. 1/4/15 8:21am
Sem Chumbo:
RevRab:I get the kick-back against socialization, the taming of the id for the greater good, the glass ceiling of control we bang our heads against just as we think we are *outside.' Because the mob-mind, the atavistic, is just a shot away, just a kiss away, just a wild jungle rhythm away, scaring the be-jezus out of the status quo.
Love Terence McKenna, btw.

Sun. 1/4/15 8:26am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...there's the distinction between Pagan & Satanist - but what's repressed comes out - & we're in a Christianist society - so as dopey as it is, it just *feels good* to growl 'Satan!' @ the top of your lungs - just basic compensatory psychology...Jefferson Airplane saying - whatever you say we are - we are we are !
...There's the great Van der Graf Generator song 'White Hammer' about the historical situation of the Pagans & Witches taking on the Black mantle under the Burning Times...